Button-fastener.



H. SPOONER & S. ALBERTSON.

BUTTON FASTENER. APPLIOATION I'I'LED JUNE 5, 1910.

,lnventors Atto rn eys U I Z I I TTTT Til STA HARRY SPOONER AND SHERMANALBERTSON, OF -WHEELINGr, MISSOURI.

, BUTTON-FASTENEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. *7, 1911.

Application filed June 8, 1910. Serial No. 565,814.

To all whom it may concern:

. ie it known that we; IIARRY SPOONER and Sinnnmx ALnnn'rsoN. citizensof the United States. residing at heeling, in the county of liivingston, State of hlissouri, have invented a new and useful Button-lastener. of which the following is a specification.

lt the object of this invention to provide, in a simple, merchantableand inexpensive form. a fastener whereby the buttons may be adjustablysecured to shoes and the like. to provide for an expansion orcontraction of the shoe or other article upon which the fastener ismounted.

Another object of the invention is to provide. in a one piece structure,a fastener having means for adjustably holding a button. and likewisehaving means whereby the device may be secured to the shoe or otherarticle, to which the fastener adapted to be attached.

In the drawings.Figure 1 is a plan of the blank from which the fasteneris fashioned; Fig. .2 is a top plan of the fastener as it will appearwhen it is mounted upon the shoe or other article; Fig. 3 is a sideelevation of the fastener; and Fig. 4 is a transverse section upon theline A B of Fig. 3.

The fastener forming the subject matter of this application, isfashioned from a flat blank. preferably of metal, the blank consistingof a body portion 1, provided at one end with an integrally formed,pointed prong and at the other end with an extension 4-, the extension 4and the prong 2 being located in the longer axis of the body 1. In theremote edges of the body 1 there are notches disposed opposite to eachother: there being any desired number of these notches. Prongs 5 areformed integailly with the extension 4, the prongs 5 being locatedrelatively near to the end. of the body 1.

As seen most clearly in Figs. 3 and +t of the drawings, the body 1 isadapted to be bent transversely into trough shape, as denoted by thenumeral (3, the notches 3 in the remote edges of the body forming seats7 in the depending side walls 8 of the trough shaped body (3. The prong2 is adapted to be bent upon itself. as denoted by the numeral 9. sothat its point shall be disposed beneath the body 1, and upon the lowersurface of the material upon which the button fastener is mounted: thenumeral 10 indicating the position of the point of the prong 2, whenpositioned as above described. The part 4 is adapted to be bent uponitself as shown at 11, so that its free end will be dis posed beneaththe body, upon the upper surface of the material with which the buttonfastener is assembled, the numeral 12, in Fig. 8 of the drawings,serving to designate the position of the extension 4:. The portions 10and 12 overlap each other, and thus the material upon which the deviceis mounted. is held between the said portions. The prongs 5 are adaptedto be bent upon themselves as denoted by the numeral 14, and extendedthrough the material. the prongs being clenched, as at 15 in Fig. 4,upon the under surface of the material.

It is to be noted that the extension or tongue 1 and the prong 2 projectfrom the uppermost portion ofthe body 1 and curve downwardly, to define,with the ends of the body 1, button receiving seats 30 and 30, theseseats being auxiliary to the seats 7, and enlarging the scope of thedevice materially. Moreover, by reason of the fact that the walls of thenotches 8 are disposed substantially at right angles to the lower edgesof the body 1, the button will be held in place against sliding ineither direction, either under the pull of the shoe, or under thetension which is applied to the button, during the buttoning operation.The end of the tongue, referring to Fig. 3, is spaced from the curvedportion 9 of the prong 2, as denoted by the numeral 31, so as to exposethe material. After the device has been mounted in place, the button maybe slid into the auxiliary seat 30, and since the end of the tongue 4:does not extend beneath the seat 30. pressure may be applied to theinter mediate portion of the body 1. bending the same. and giving thebody sufficient spring to hold the button in place, when the same ismounted in one of the seats 7.

A button fastener constructed as above described, may readily beassembled with the shoe or other article, and it will be seen that byspringing the trough-shaped body portion 6 of the fastener slightly, theeye of the button may be successively mounted in the seats 7. Thus. asingle shoe may be adapted to fit persons having different ankledimensions, and the wearer of the shoe will be cnabled, without the useof tools of any kind, to cause the shoe to fit loosely or tightly uponthe foot, as may be desired. The line defined by the buttons 22 mayreadily be altered by shifting one or more buttons, and any undue strainuponthe button holes, will thus be obviated.

As shownin Fig. l, the blank for the formation of the button fastener,may be stamped at trifling cost, from a single sheet of material.

Having thus described our invention, what is claimed is z- 7 A buttonfastener comprising a troughshaped body having straight lower edgeportions presented toward the material with which the fastener isassembled, there being spaced pairs of oppositely disposed notches inthe lower edge portions, the walls of the notches being disposed atright angles to the edge portions; the body being provided with a prongat one end and with a tongue at the other end, both of which projectfrom the base of the trough and curve downwardly to define, with theends of the body, button receiving seats auxiliary to the notches, theprong being adapted to be extended through the material and along thelower surface thereof, beneath the body, and the tongue being adapted tobe extended along the upper surface of the material beneath the body,the end of the tongue being spaced from the curved portion of the prong;and elements upon the tongue to engage the material.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own, we have heretoaflixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

HARRY SPOONER. SHERMAN ALBERTSON. \Vitnesses Y B. F. Fon'r, VALTER Scorn

